INTERVIEW WITH CLAIRE STERLING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505110071-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: January 5, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE January 5, 1984 10:00 A.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
Interview with Claire Sterling
DIANE REHM: Just before Christmas, Pope John Paul II
offered his forgiveness to Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist
who shot and nearly killed him back in May of 1981. But investi-
gative reporter Claire Sterling says Agca did not act alone and
that Western leaders have deliberately tried to mislead the
public about a conspiracy to kill the Pope. She's with me in our
first hour.
REHM: ...assassins. Investigative reporter Claire
Sterling says there was an organized plot to murder Pope John
Paul II, and traces its source to the Bulgarian secret services,
acting on behalf of the Soviet KGB. But she charges that the
Western public was deliberately misled by its own leaders to
believe there was never a conspiracy at all.
I'm Diane Rehm. Claire Sterling is here in the studio
with me. And we'll be taking your calls during the hour on
966-8850.
Claire Sterling, it's nice to have you
here again.
CLAIRE STERLING: I'm glad to be back.
REHM: This.is a story that definitely continues to
unfold. But from the beginning, it was a very confusing one for
us here in the Western World.
STERLING: Well, it was very confusing because there was
evidence from the very start, from the very minute this young man
was arrested that he could not have acted alone. But within 48
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